New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-04-10

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that you were ensne the better mind Of the country I
s OF m'sS
dent Of your choice hero Of the rare
mirgpg Your first best and last best product OF demG6
the Hmsn al and the
the Nations spiritual moral and intellectual sssts
before the assembled learning and wisdom and grace Of
gathered from the OLD world ana tnc n =" re-
sena be an se. OF wa. yoSr
sion gratinedi Did he evince the mental resource wo
needs no college lore the refinement whchis deeper t1sn
mind
THEY BOTH SPEAK AS MEN OF LETTERS.
Richmonds final charge is made on flying steed WIN
his lance we'll and his colors streaming In tho WIND
And after these political tricks before high heaven you
dare stand Of letters and claim TO choose tne
to advocate the first best as against your countrys low
democratic urch to the second best claim to be setng
to higher levels SEA As man Of letters you must
speak and you camor to your GODS 10 s;s n NJ
makes generous t. too stand here q letters,
and man of letters speak and looking around upon
ocrats men of learning and accomplishmo,nts ana
achievements men OF great IDEAS ana ngn @ h"r
men Of direct purpose and simple faith and unweaayns
men who transact their nav be mot as
sng mnopGy OF moral @ doing On mans work in
modest manly way-I refer your petition for ennobng
science to your own early words:
"Iook inward through the depths OF thine Own SOUL
How Is II with theef Art thou sound AMI wholef
Doth narrow search show thee no earthly stani
Be noble, and the nobleness that lies
In other men, sleeping but never dead,
VIII rise In majesty to meet thine own
Then wilt thou see 1t CLEAN In many eyes; -,
Then will pure light around thy pain DC shed.
GENERAL GRANT AND MATTHEW ARNOLD
GENERAL FRY CONTINUES TO HOIST THE ENGLISH
CRITIC BY HIS OWN PETARD.
Mr.. Arnolds introduction" OF General Grant to the
- Fry Ulo "a
occasion for 1t uness 1t be that Grant never ectured In
Great Britain" General Fry comedies hatGrants career
O soldier and statesman Is open TO the most
rigid scrutiny and his work as an author 10
the strctest rules Of fair criticism The prime purpose
OF his article is "to make some comparisons Dc
the literary work Of the distinguished but matter
of-fact American solder and tho learned British critic
lie pursues his purpose thus:
WHAT is HIGHLY BRED ENGLIsH'
II must he remembered that General Grant
scholar and that he wrote his Memoirs IN the throes
Mr. Arnold says Of Grants Memoirs az found q Ian,
guage all asray in its OF will and shall shond ana
breeding" This expression implies the assumption Oh Mr
A Ape.S hi, that Article e0 sustain Sss
High lights in literature express the ron meaI Enss
himself is without high-breedng" He uses the term
PeIaon to tSe man We understand
men, in cattle, in dogs, etc., but Mr. Arnold Will ha'eO
tell us what hgh-DreedlnS IN
General Fry fails to what there Is TO admire IN
changes like these from style OF the soldier to that OF
the scholar and fears far from the latter style being
"highbred" English, it Is rather to be termed hybrtd
Grant says Of his resome life at the Military Academy
fri, s9 as NJ TGe sTas @ Eng
hsh says: 4" His last two years went quicker than d.
stature" Arnold says with stature that had run up
too fast for his strength Speaking OF ,se Large
was packed" Arnold says In the evening the court
house was crammcd"
THINGS Mr.. ARNOLD THINKS GRANT SHOULD HAVE
Mr. Arnods charges considered not only defective
by General Fry he thinks that they fail to express
the sodierauthors meaning For example, speaking OF
the preliminary operations Of the Mexican war, Grant
says the occupation OF certain territory was apparently
to force Mexico to initiate war" We were sent 10
provoke fight but It essential that Mexico shouId
commence IT," Surely that is plain enough But
Mr. Arnold renders 1t rs follows: ostensibly the
American troops we're prevent hlbustering into
Texas really they were sent as menace 10 MEXICO Ia
says OF his appointment 70 the Military Aedemy nI
Hamer tho member OF the House OF kepr rne e
serving PERHAPS BY careless. rsadpg u that
the subject OF the appointment, says: The
United states for Ohio procured for young Grant
Point The error in this is serious but as
Mr. Arnold must know that every state OF our Snon mas
sentence the United senator for Ohio suggests
that OF the definite article Is not set DOWN III MS
linguistic category as an offence
SURPLUS OF WORDS.
Tho English critics excessive vocabulary strikes his
American commentator as mucn too generously dis
tributei:
Here are some examples "The afternoon OF that same
day = "he SAYS with perfect truth "high genus; tho
URed states senator 0 Gears on o G yh he
aicdyS the same strong man. etc dsnoSt eIaeHR .he
saBe strength the beginning OF the cainpaign III
the south could succeed in pr0longing an lndecisiye
struggle year after year stW the North mg proodoy
grow tired OF the contest In the heu lets Was sve
war came and kept him in the army Grant declined
because lie was to go % that evening 10 'si' MS CHI
dren"
MR.. ARNOLD BECOMES OCULAR
General FRY strays for n moment from his entertaining
review OF highly bred tauology and charming malrans
positions to train one Mr. Arnold pet guns upon him
self
Mr. Arnold himself probably has some love for Amer
teams in general he the lash freely ana we are
told that whom the Lord loveh He chastcneth Grant,
Mr. Arnold tells u.s. is boastful. Americans are apt
10 be for his nation" Grant boastfu only In cir
cinstances where nothing high genius or high train
INC sunnose can save an American from being boast
full" That fine and delicate naturalist Mt burroughs,
mentions trout and instantly he adds Britsh trout oy
It 10 the chance by which "somc documents puD-
lished by General Badeau in the American newspapers
first at tracted his my attention 10 Grant That the BTU
ish people are indebted for Mr. Arnods discovery ot me
American soldier. Having caught from America " ho
age for lie COMPARES uran od 70 aea
the character and qualities which we so Justly rvspec.
III the Duke Of Mel Ws0gSa nnSshmcn are not
They merely set up one OF their own as
the standard OF human greatness, and measure o'her
men by that standard
BOSTON STEALING CHICAGOS THUNDER
From The Chicago Ners
Boston has been making 4 great paaver over her
" LongfeuOw memorial readings" Iheso reauillSs